French actor Louis Jourdan died

French actor Louis Jourdan died Saturday, February 14 at the age of 93, at his home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, said Sunday his official biographer, Olivier Minne.

The latter, also host to France Télévisions, said that the actor "was the last french lover of Hollywood as were Maurice Chevalier and Jean-Pierre Aumont " . The man has spent his entire career in the United States. Mr Minne, who is preparing with the family of the actor a book and a documentary on his life, added: "He embodied the French elegance. »

"It was a one-man band, actor, television host, but also with great shows with Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis. He also played in the theater and was a model including Pierre Cardin " , has he finally did argue .

"I WAS THE FRENCH LAYOUT"

Born Robert Louis Gendre in Marseille , the actor was a regular role of "handsome" in Hollywood films, but he also played the villain in Octopussy in 1983, the James Bond series. He made ​​his screen debut in France in 1939 by chaining romantic comedies before the onset of the Second World War. Putting her career on Parenthe her , then went into the Resistance.

Called by producer David O. Selnick in Hollywood, he joined the cast of a film by Alfred Hitchcock, The Trial Paradine ( The Paradine Case ) in 1947 and decided to stay in the United States. He played in a number of feature films, the most famous, Gigi Vicente Minnelli in 1958, along with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier.

The actor, who claimed watch his films, had felt that Hollywood had "created an image. I was the French cliché " . His last screen appearance was in 1992 in Year of the Comet Peter Yates. Louis Jourdan, who was awarded the Legion of Honor in 2010 in Los Angeles, where he had retired, had two stars on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame", the famous walk of famous actors.